Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-11
Arguments Drawn From Every Day Life
as Evidence of the Resurrec-
ton of the Body.
H0meIy Examples Of Resurrection
What One Force DissOlTes An
other Force Organizes.
Death Swallowed Up In a Victory and Man
Made Glorious by New Life
The Monster Overthrow.
Special to the Gazette.

pit, the pillars and the galleries were one
great garden of bloom. Professor Browne,
the organist, and Professor Ali, the cor
netist, rendered selections from Handel,
Haydn and Beethoven, appropriate to the
day celebrated. The subject of DR.. Tai
mage's discourse was "The Overthrow of
the Monster" and his text Isaiah XIV,
s.: "He will swallow up death in victory
DR.. Talmsge said:
About eighteen hundred and ffty-three
Easter mornings have wakened the earth.
In France for three centuries the alma
macs made the year begin at Easter, until
Charles N made the year begin at Janu-
sry LIST. In the Tower of London there
is royal payroll of Edward l, on which
there is en- entry of eighteen pence for
400 COlOred and pictured Easter eggs,
with which the people spOrted. In Russia
slaves were fed and aims were distributed
on Easter. Ecclesiastical councils met at
Pontus, at Gaul, at Rome, ct Achaia, to
decide the particular day, and after q
controversy, more animated than gra-
ciOus, decided it, and now through all
Christendom, in some way the first Sun
day after the full moon, which happens
upon or next after March u, is filed
with Easter rejoicing.
The Royal Court of the Sabbaths is
made up Of fifty two. Fifty-one are
princes in the royal household, but Eas-
ter is queen. She wears q richer diGdem
and sWays more jeWeled scepter, and in
her smile nations are irradiated.
Unusually welcome this year because
of the harsh winter and the late
spring, she seems to step out Of the
snOW-b&nk rather than the conservatory,
come out of the north instead Of the south,
out of the Arctic rather than the tropics,
dismOunting from the icy equinox; but
welcome this queenIy day, holding high
up in her right hand the wrenChed-Off
bolt of ChrisI's sepuIcber, and holding
high up in her left hand the key to all the
cemeteries in Christendom.
II is an exciting thing to see an army
routed and flying. They run each other
down. They scatter everything valuable
in the track. Unwheeied artillery. HOOf
of horse on breast Of wounded and dying
man. You have read of the French falling
back from Sedan, or NapOleOn's track of
10000 corpses in the snOW-banks of
Russia, or of the retreat of our own
armies from Manassas, or of the five
kings tumbling over the rocks of BethOran
with their armies, while the bRil-stOrms
of Heaven and the swords of JOshua's
host struck them with their fury. In my
text is e worse discontinue. 1t seems
that black giant proposed ID conquer
the earth. He gathered for his host all
the aches and pains and malarias and
cancers and distemperS and epidemiCs OF
the ages. He marched them down, dril-
ling them in the northeast wind and amid
the slush of tempests. He threw up
barbados of grave mounds. He pitched
tent of Charnel house. Some OF the
troops marched with slow tread COM
manded by cOnsumptions, somein double
quick, commanded by pneumonia. Some
ne took by long besiegement of evil
habit, and some by one stroke of the bat
tle-aXe of casualty. With bOnv hand he
pounded at the door Of hospitals and sick
rooms, and won all the victories in all the
great battle fields of all the five CONT
neGts. Forward march, the cUrquerOr OF
cOnqueTOrs, and all the generals
and COmmanders-in-Chief,a and all presi-
dents and kings and sNltsu5 and
cars drop under the feet of his war
charger. But one Christmas night his
antagonist was born. As most Of the
plaques and sicknesseS and desp0tISmS
come out Of the east, it was appropriate
that the new ConqUerOr should come out
of the same quarter. Power is given
Him to awaken all the fallen of all the
centuries and Of all lands, and marshal
them against the black giant. Fields
have already been won, but the last day
of the worlds existence will see the de-
cisive battle. When Christ shall lead
forth His two brigades, the brigade OF
the risen dead and the brigade Of the ce-
lestial host, the black giant will fall back,
and the brigade from the riven sepul-
GERS will take Him from beneath and the
brigade of descending immortals will
take Him from above, and death shall be
sWal lowed up in victory.
The Old brRggRrt that threatened the
conquest and demolition of the planet
has lost his throne, has lost his scepter,
has lost his palace, has lost his prestige,
and the one wOrdIwritten over all the gates
of mauSOIeum and CataCOmb and neCrOpo-
lis, on Cenotaph and sarcOphagus, on the
lonely khan of the Arctic explorer, and
on the Catafalque Ofgreat cathedral, written
in capitals of azales and Gala lily, writ
ten in musical cadence, written in dOXol-
Ogy of great assemblages, written on the
sCuIptuTed door of the family vault, is
''AlCgOl COIOuAl NClNy GlupduuC4Cu
word, apocalyptic word, chief word of the
triumphal arch under which ConqueTors
return.
Victory Word shouted at Culloden
and Balaklava and Blenheim, at MegiddO
and SoIferino, at Marathon, where the
Afhenians drove back the Modes; at Polo
tiers, where Charles Martel broke the
ranks of the SareCens; at Salemis, where
Themistocles in the great sea-fght con-
founded the Persians, and at the door Of
the eastern cavern of CGiseied rock,
where Christ came out through recess
and throttled the King of TerrOrs, and
put him back il the niche from which the
celestial conquerOr had just emerged.
Aha. when the jaws of the eastern mauso-
leum took down the black giant "death
was swallowed up in victory" l pro-
claim the abolition of death.
The Old antagonist is driven back into
mythology with all the lore about Stygian
ferry and CharoD with oar and boat.
Melrose Abbey and KenilwOrth Castle are
no more in ruins than is the sepulcher.
We shall have no more to do with death